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October 22, 2011 to 12 May 2012. A series of eight lectures, in Dutch, on the history of cartography, organised by the University of Ghent (Vakgroep Geografie), in collaboration with the Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle (BIMCC). Registration. Contact: Karen.DeCoene(at)UGent.be.
February 4-5 - 19th Miami International Map Fair, at HistoryMiami (formerly the Historical Museum of Southern Florida).
February 27? - New York. 'Working digitally with historical maps', a One-Day Workshop at the New York Public Library, to be held as part of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, for details see the posting to the MapHist list.
March 9 - London. Medieval Maps and Diagrams, a one-day conference at the Warburg Institute, London.
March 31 - Richmond, Virginia. The 2012 Alan M. & Nathalie Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography at the Library of Virginia, 800 East Broad Street. Lectures by Kent Mountford and J. Court Stevenson will focus on the Chesapeake Bay. Maps will be on display from the Library of Virginia’s collections and the Mariners Museum Library. Additional details to be released. Call 804-692-3813 for more information.
April 18-22 - Weimar. Atlas-Tage, at the Weimar Geographical Institute, organised by Jürgen Espenhorst and Andreas Christoph.
April 19-20 - Barcelona. 7th International Cartographic Association (ICA) Workshop "Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage", organized by the ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage and the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 January 2012.
April 25-8 - Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. International conference, Mercator Revisited: Cartography in the Age of Discovery. Deadline for Call for Papers: 1 September 2011.
May 12 - Perth. Scotish Map Forum Seminar, 'Mapping and Printing the world: Scottish Milestones in 19th century publishing'.
May 12 - Menlo Park. Spring meeting of the California Map Society in northern California, at the headquarters of the USGS.
May 18-19 - Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress Geography and Map Division in conjunction with the Philip Lee Phillips Society will hold a conference entitled 'Envisioning a New Republic-- Cartography from 1750-1800'. Contact John Hessler: jhes@loc.gov.
June 18-29 - Indianapolis. Summer 2012 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities. Deadline for Applications: 3 February 2012.
June 28-9 - Budapest. Exploration - Discovery - Cartography, the 4th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography. Followed on 30 June by a meeting of the International Society for the History of the Map. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 February 2012.
June 28-July 1 - Albuquerque. A panel on the history of cartography, organized by Alex Zukas, at the World History Association meeting. Items to be discussed include the Saint-Sever Beatus mappamundi and 18th-century world/imperial maps.
July 3-5 - Edinburgh. Proposed Historical Geography session at the annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society, with the Institute of British Geographers, 'The apparatus of school geography: production, movement and use, c.1870-c.1940'. Deadline for Call for Papers: 28 January 2012.
July 8-10 - Brisbame. Global Connection through Mapping, the Brisbane International Geospatial Forum, at the State Library of Queensland, Australia. A joint effort between the Australian and New Zealand Map Society (ANZMapS), Mapping Sciences Institute, Australia (MSIA) and the International Map Trade Association (IMTA). Papers on 'historical mapping' are mentioned. Deadline for Call for Papers: 1 March 2012.
July 26-9 - Denver. Conference, The Mapping of North America: Westward Expansion, organized by the Rocky Mountain Map Society in conjunction with the Texas Map Society, followed by the Map Fair of the West.
August 22 - Leipzig. 'Cartographie et savoir(s) géographique(s) dans la sphère publique', a pre-conference meeting in advance of the 32nd International Conference of the International Geographical Union (in Cologne), at the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, followed by a six-day train excursion to Cologne. The meeting is supported by the IGU's Commission on the History of Geography, and some historical themes are mentioned. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 December 2011. See here for the announcement in English.
September? - Duisburg. 12th Symposium of the International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes.
September 9-12 - Vienna. Symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society, 'Early Cartography in the Habsburg Empire, and Commemoration of Mercator's 500th Birthday'.
September 11-14 - Lisbon. IV Ibero-American Conference on the History of Cartography. Deadline for Call for Papers: 30 March 2012.
September 21-2 - Paris. Study days on Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Programme will appear here.
September 27-9 - Pasadena, California. The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries at the Huntington Library, co-sponsored by the California Map Society. Deadline for Call for Papers: 15 April 2012.
November 15-18 - San Juan, Puerto Rico. American Studies Association (ASA) 2012, 'Pictures from an Expedition: Aesthetics of 19th-century Cartographic Exploration in the Americas'. Deadline for Call for Papers: 23 January 2012.
December 3 - Paris. Study day on marine cartography [portolan charts], at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in collaboration with Inha [=Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art?]. Programme will appear here.
December 8 - Brussels. The Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle annual conference, 'Mercator and Hondius'.
June 30-July 5 - Helsinki, Finland. 25th International Conference on the History of Cartography
August 25-30 - Dresden. 26th International Cartographic Conference of the International Cartographic Association, including the Commission on the History of Cartography.
August/September? - Fairbanks, Alaska. 31st international symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society.
October 31-November 3 - Tampa Bay. The 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries at the Tampa Bay History Center, Florida.
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